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Graham Backs Push for Climate Change Legislation
Fox News ^ | 10/11/2010 | Fox News

Posted on 10/11/2009 8:43:18 AM PDT by JohnD9207

A top Senate Republican on Sunday announced his support for sweeping climate change legislation, disputing the "conventional wisdom" that says Congress simply cannot tackle the issue this year.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., co-authored an op-ed with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in The New York Times calling for action on legislation.

Kerry rolled out a Senate climate change bill alongside Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., late last month. A Graham aide said Sunday that the South Carolina Republican was not explicitly endorsing that bill, but stands ready to work with Kerry toward some version of legislation to combat global warming.

Though even Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has expressed doubt that the Senate can address the issue at the same time it's engineering health care reform, Graham and Kerry said a bipartisan bill is possible before a major international climate change summit in Copenhagen in December.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: climatechange; conservativenot; lindseygraham; mclameslapdog; rino; rinos4obama; tinkywinky
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To: SC Swamp Fox
Who are your senators?

CA: All commie all the time. Sorry.... But I've voted straight R...when there's been one worth voting for. I think we're all in desperate trouble.

81 posted on 10/11/2009 2:32:43 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: mapmaker77

SC voters had a chance last year to replace Graham but instead they reelected him. Obviously he is doing something right by them.


82 posted on 10/11/2009 3:10:33 PM PDT by JerryP (I hereby promise to support the GOP candidate in 2012 no matter who he or she may be)
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To: Captain Kirk

The fact that Conley was a Ron Paul Democrat is argument enough in itself to have supported Graham.


83 posted on 10/11/2009 3:19:01 PM PDT by JerryP (I hereby promise to support the GOP candidate in 2012 no matter who he or she may be)
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To: JohnD9207

As far as I can tell, he’s up for reelection in 2008. Let’s find someone to run against him and send them money. That’s the only way to stop these people is to quit acting like they’re Republicans and cut them off, period!


84 posted on 10/11/2009 4:26:58 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: goldstategop
Who is a socialist, big government evangelist in drag? A RINO.

I didn't know he was a preacher?

I think you meant evangelical.

Most evangelicals, and furthermore, actual Christians, no more support Big Government than they support abortion.

Furthermore, you, the GOP, and conservatives are going nowhere without social conservatives.
85 posted on 10/11/2009 4:42:51 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: Captain Kirk
Well said. Glenn Beck was right. It wouldn't have been any better (and in some ways worse) if McCain had won. Please note that folks here used the same arguments to justify support for McCain in November as the used for Graham, when his opponent was a Ron Paul Democrat.

Is this the same Ron Paul that regularly attaches Riders containing pork for his district to bills he is voting against because he knows the bill is going to pass?

That ethical-giant Ron Paul?
86 posted on 10/11/2009 4:45:39 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: Captain Kirk; JohnD9207
Some of us urged that folks here support the Ron Paul Democrat who ran against him in November but were shot down by those who said that Republicans “had” to control the Senate.

If you argue that for any reason it is the right thing to support a Democrat, you don't belong on this web-site.

You are giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
87 posted on 10/11/2009 4:47:17 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: Captain Kirk; JohnD9207
Some of us urged that folks here support the Ron Paul Democrat who ran against him in November but were shot down by those who said that Republicans “had” to control the Senate.

Furthermore, for someone who is supposed to represent "Ron Paul"'s principles to be a democrat really says some bad things about Ron Paul given the positions of the Democrats, if he really represents Ron Paul's principles.
88 posted on 10/11/2009 4:50:36 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: JohnD9207
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., co-authored an op-ed with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in The New York Times calling for action on legislation.

Sheesh, didn't even make it past the second sentence. Told me all I needed to know. Goober + Kerry (he served in Viet Nam) = friggin' disaster.

89 posted on 10/11/2009 4:54:56 PM PDT by 50cal Smokepole (Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
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To: JohnD9207

That simple p.o.s. has got to go.


90 posted on 10/11/2009 4:55:49 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: rabscuttle385

I wonder who “bought” Lindsey on this one. My guess G.E. They wrote “Crap & Trade, anyway.


91 posted on 10/11/2009 6:16:29 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Defiant

He’s trying to out-McCain McCain.
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When will he announce his candidacy for POTUS?


92 posted on 10/12/2009 6:09:39 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: DTogo

Vote for the RNC = Frying Pan

Vote for Democrats = Fire

Vote for 3rd Party Conservatives = a principled choice, however slim, for limited, Constitutional Government.
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Lose
Lose
Lose

Win: Vote for Conservative Rs, while forcing the R party toward conservatives.

3rd parties have not, and will not work.

In the history of the United States, not a single third party has come close to winning the presidency, only 7 3rd parties have even won a single state’s electoral votes and only 5 third parties have won even 10% of the vote.


93 posted on 10/12/2009 6:55:17 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: TigersEye

They are Republican-Americans.
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Descriptive term. Of course the Rats don’t even want to be known as Americans.


94 posted on 10/12/2009 6:58:45 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: JohnD9207

Why do they keep electing this traitor? I think both parties have been infiltrated by Marxist thugs. I really do.


95 posted on 10/12/2009 7:10:40 AM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: SoConPubbie
If you argue that for any reason it is the right thing to support a Democrat, you don't belong on this web-site.

This is a site to promote limited government not a site to slavishly support a single party. Perhaps you need to start a "Lindsay Graham Loyalty" site of your own.

96 posted on 10/12/2009 7:27:07 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Captain Kirk

Captain:

Sc voters need a five year long memory.

“Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

:-)

The only global warming I am seeing is a lot of hot air in DC.


97 posted on 10/12/2009 7:35:17 AM PDT by cgbg (Lying is what they _do_.)
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To: SeattleBruce
Of course the Rats don’t even want to be known as Americans.

Actually they do. They want to promote their views as what being American really is and they have been very successful at it. In large part because RINOs don't present any resistance to their POV. The public gets a choice between Democrat Party loyalty or Republican Party loyalty. American loyalty is seldom offered as a political choice.

98 posted on 10/12/2009 1:12:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (Everybody knows it's a spotted dog...)
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To: TigersEye
B: Of course the Rats don’t even want to be known as Americans.

TE: Actually they do.
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Let me refine my comment a bit. Rats don't want to identify themselves with patriotism, or patriotic Americans, the way that conservatives traditionally view American patriotism.

They would, as you suggest, like to redefine Americanism or patriotism as Democrat party defined ‘tolerance’ and ‘bleeding heart liberalism’ (read socialism/radicalism).

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American loyalty is seldom offered as a political choice.
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Perhaps not in the past, but more and more now, it seems, we're seeing two pretty dichotomous views.

99 posted on 10/12/2009 3:38:11 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: SeattleBruce

I agree. I hope more in the GOP will stand up and support a more rigorous view of conservatism. So far most of the energy seems to reside mostly amongst the rank and file.


100 posted on 10/12/2009 3:53:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (Everybody knows it's a spotted dog...)
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